Latest editorial
Labour to let big business teach our kids
Tristram Hunt abandons schools pledge
Shadow education secretary Tristram Hunt abandoned yesterday a Labour pledge to let councils take control of free schools and academies.
Labour promised earlier this month to allow thousands of English schools to revert to local authority control and end a Tory ban on new community schools.
Former education spokesman Stephen Twigg made the commitments at a conference of school governors and a Labour spokesman confirmed that it was "agreed policy."
More from this author
No-one left behind with schools run NHS-style
Court blocks 130,000 from voting
Similar stories
NEU conference urges Labour to fix school funding crisis by getting rid of academy bosses earning over £500,000
As the government moves to rein in academy freedoms, former darling of conservative education reform Katharine Birbalsingh cries ‘Marxism.’ Education columnist ROBERT POOLE examines how academisation has failed our children while enriching executives and empowering ideologues at the expense of democratic accountability
SOLOMON HUGHES probes the finances of a phoney ‘charity’ pushing the free schools and academies agenda
From defeating illiteracy to tackling student stress, China’s system transforms lives while putting people before profit — British educators should consider what we could learn from the world’s largest school system, writes LOGAN WILLIAMS